Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The edible bulb of the sego lily.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A showy flowered plant, Calochortus Nuttallii, widely distributed in the western United States.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A liliaceous plant (
Calochortus Nuttallii ) of Western North America, and its edible bulb; -- so called by the Ute Indians and the Mormons.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A perennial bulb lily found in Western North America, the Calochortus nuttallii, which has trumpet-shaped flowers.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It was the "sego" of the Indians (_Calochortus luteus_), and they knew that at its roots grew tubers, as large as filberts, and delicious eating when cooked.
The Boy Hunters Mayne Reid 1850
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One May we were astounded to find a large draw on the top of the property crammed with thousands of sego lilies whose starchy tubers were prized by the Indians.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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One May we were astounded to find a large draw on the top of the property crammed with thousands of sego lilies whose starchy tubers were prized by the Indians.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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One May we were astounded to find a large draw on the top of the property crammed with thousands of sego lilies whose starchy tubers were prized by the Indians.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Edible Chenopodium, Indian ricegrass, sego lily roots, yucca, biscuit-root, bloodroot and many other nutritious and medicinal plants still grow here.27 The soil, though alkaline as short-grass soils are, has been enriched by centuries of river and creek silt deposition.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Edible Chenopodium, Indian ricegrass, sego lily roots, yucca, biscuit-root, bloodroot and many other nutritious and medicinal plants still grow here.27 The soil, though alkaline as short-grass soils are, has been enriched by centuries of river and creek silt deposition.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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One May we were astounded to find a large draw on the top of the property crammed with thousands of sego lilies whose starchy tubers were prized by the Indians.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Edible Chenopodium, Indian ricegrass, sego lily roots, yucca, biscuit-root, bloodroot and many other nutritious and medicinal plants still grow here.27 The soil, though alkaline as short-grass soils are, has been enriched by centuries of river and creek silt deposition.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Edible Chenopodium, Indian ricegrass, sego lily roots, yucca, biscuit-root, bloodroot and many other nutritious and medicinal plants still grow here.27 The soil, though alkaline as short-grass soils are, has been enriched by centuries of river and creek silt deposition.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Once in the car with Sister Cora, I stared out the window at the landscape, the patches of sego lilies, the pale pink and white yucca flowers amid the scrub brush and wild sage.
Keep Sweet MICHeLe DomInGuez Greene 2010
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